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Teaching:
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CHE576
Intermediate Process Control
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CHE358
Process Data Analysis - Course
Outline
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CHE662
Process Identification – Course Outline
Research:
Process Control, State
Estimation, Soft Sensors, System Identification, Control Performance
Assessment, Fuel Cell, Biomedical Modeling
Industry Partners:
Syncrude
Canada, Suncor Energy, Suncor Firebag, Sherritt International, Agrium
Inc.
New Book 1:
Huang,
B. and R. Kadali, Dynamic
Modeling, Predictive Control and Performance Monitoring: A Data-driven
Subspace Approach, Springer Verlag, ISBN: 978-1-84800-232-6.
New Book 2:
Mohieddine Jeali
and Biao Huang (Eds), Detection and diagnosis of stiction in control loops:
State of the art and advanced methods, Springer Verlag, book to appear in
October 2009.
Other publications:
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Publication list
Software Download:
Control
performance assessment toolbox, MPC performance assessment toolbox,
Closed-loop Identification,
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Models/Simulink Models
Research Opportunity (updated Feb. 8, 2011):
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Research Opportunities
(Position Open for Research Associate, PDF, PhD, MSc)
Current Professional
Activities
Awards
- NSERC
Senior Industrial Research Chair in Control of Oil Sands Process, University
of Alberta News, Edmonton
J. News, IRC Video,
- Fellow
of Chemical Institute of Canada since 2010
- 2009-2010
Killam Annual Professorship award
- Chang Jiang International Scholar 2008
- Recipient
of NSERC DAS (2007-08 competition)
- CSChE
Syncrude Canada Innovation Award (2005)
- Journal of Process Control Best Paper Award, in the category "methodology / theory" for
the period 2002 to 2005: Thornhill, N. F., B. Huang, and H. Zhang, Detection of multiple
oscillations in control loops, Journal of Process Control, 13(1),
91-100, 2003.
- Best
referee award, Journal of Process Control, 2006.
- One
of the best poster paper awards for the paper “Assessment of economic
performance of model predictive control through variance/constraint
tuning”, 2006 IFAC ADCHEM, Brazil, April 2-5.
- McCalla
Professorship (2005-2006)
- Petro-Canada
Young Innovator (2003)
- Humboldt
Research Fellowship (2003 - 2004)
- Honorable
mention as one of five finalist papers at the IFAC World Congress
for the Best IFAC Congress Applications Paper Prize (2002).
- Canada
Foundation for Innovation Researcher (1998)
- Andrew
Steward Memorial Graduate Prize, University of Alberta
(1996)
- Dissertation
Fellowship, University
of Alberta
(1996)
- Du
Pont/Paprican Scholarship (1994 - 1995)
- University of Alberta
Ph.D Scholarship, University
of Alberta (1992 -
1994)
Group Photo taken on March 25, 2011
Group Photo Taken Nov. 30,
2011
IRC announcement: Dean of Engineering Faculty(Left 1) ,
NSERC President (Left 2), University of Alberta President (Right 1)
Six
UofA NSERC IRC Chairs photo taken Nov. 30, 2011 during IRC ceremony
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